Word: exaction
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...member of the Foster family ever lived a day under its roof. My father was Morrison Foster, Stephen Foster's brother, and we have ample records, contemporary and documentary, showing that the '"White Cottage" where Stephen Foster and my father both were born was located on the exact spot where a brick building called the Stephen C. Foster Memorial Home, at No. 3600 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh, now stands. The actual little white frame cottage where my father and his brother Stephen were born was torn down...
...discovered that an art student could make a fair living as a museum copyist. For ten years, while his own painting swung further and further to the Left, while his interest in oriental art-Persian miniatures in particular -grew by leaps & bounds, he worked for the Government making microscopically exact copies of the great paintings in the Louvre for private collectors and provincial museums. By 1906 Artist Matisse, still youthful, but bearded as he is today, had given up copying, was the leader of an insurgent group of painters who were derisively called Les Fauves (Wild Beasts).* Outraging conservatives, they...
...investigation and study of the inheritance of mental diseases,† flatly declared that "most of the legislation which has been enacted so far is based more upon a desire to elevate the human race than upon proven facts. . . . Neither psychiatry nor human genetics approach at present the status of exact sciences...
Like Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Romeo and Juliet, the Czinner As You Like It is textually exact. Sir James Barrie made the treatment from which Screenwriter R. J. Cullen wrote the scenario. Said Cinemactress Bergner: "I would like you to believe that we have made the film with love and with reverence. " . . We have had slightly to cut one or two of the longer speeches, but every word that we have left out has only been left out after argument, quarreling, and occasional tears." To highlight his wife's performance, Director Czinner saw to it that other roles...
Stone Age Africa is a scientific volume, of interest to laymen for its exact geographical and geological information, for a number of good photographs and for a suggestive chapter on Stone Age African art, with several specimens of brilliant prehistoric drawings. Restless Jungle is by the widow of Explorer Carl Akeley, includes a description of a conventional trip from Cape Town north, with chapters on an interview with the Queen of Swaziland, on elephants at play, on African pioneers, on native witchcraft, which Mrs. Akeley is disposed to take seriously...